Episode 918 - K.C. Novak

Hi, he's Dave Shumka and he's Graham Clark.

And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself.

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Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode number 819 of Stop Podcast.

No, sorry, 918.

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Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode number 918 of Stop Podcasting Yourself.

My name is Graham Clark, and with me is a guy who just tried to enjoy some red velvet cupcakes, Mr.

Dave Shumka.

I had one.

Yeah.

Did you enjoy it?

Yeah, I like the...

It's chocolate.

Yeah, I guess it is chocolate.

It's just color for fun.

Yeah, I think in the old, in the old days they would use beets, but when you get it for Betty Crocker, it's just pink chocolate.

Yeah, beets.

Lovely.

And it comes with a cream cheese icing.

Oh, yeah.

No, thanks.

You say no to cream cheese icing.

I say down with cream cheese icing.

Give me anything but.

What would go well aside from vanilla?

I guess vanilla would be the vanilla gang.

Chocolate, freaking mint.

Red velvet itself.

Banana.

Mint.

Wow.

So anything.

Sure.

Chocolate and mint.

Those guys are pretty close friends.

Oh, our guest is not feeling that at all.

She's a returning guest here to the podcast.

You can catch her on the new wave of stand-up comedy on CBC's Gem.

It's Casey Novak.

Yay!

She did a big like finger throw.

Like she was

literally tar herself to Graham's.

Don't tell me with a tar combo.

Yeah, actually my favorite YouTuber

where I do workouts, she does that for her little opening because she has a little swirl graphic that comes in and she's like, let's get to it.

Oh, okay.

When you say her little opening, you don't mean.

No, I don't, Dave.

Wow.

All right.

Let's get it.

She takes her finger and swoops it around.

Damn.

All right.

Club comedy.

Let's go.

Should we get to know us?

Yeah.

Get to know us.

First of all, you're wearing a shirt that says unsubscribe.

I love it.

With a heart.

I love it.

Is this merch?

Is this your merch?

I wish it's from Old Navy.

Yes.

Old Navy?

What is Old Navy trying to say?

I don't know.

Yeah, because they want people to subscribe to their channels.

They're kind of being counterculture.

They're like, don't listen to this podcast anymore.

Don't, you've got to get off our email list.

Yeah.

I think times are so dark that Old Navy is punk now.

I think that's what's happening.

I guess it is.

They do have a lot of rock and roll t-shirts, don't they?

Or is that.

Yeah, they do.

They have like a whole back section now that's almost like Spencer gifts.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like I, uh, where would you get band t-shirts in the past?

Maybe you're in town of Tommy Lee.

Oh, yeah.

Back in the day?

Back in the day.

Oh, there was Rock Shop, the head shops.

The head shops.

Head shops.

I felt like that was the only place to get a rock shop.

Unless you went to the concert.

You could buy a fresh $80 t-shirt.

But now, anywhere.

Yeah.

What's the best concert t-shirts that you guys have?

I have a pretty, well, the most exclusive one I have is I have a tour t-shirt from Lizzo's last tour before she became big.

Oh.

So she was still, she was at a tiny little club here in town, thought she was amazing, bought the t-shirt.

Cool.

Yeah, so that's probably the best one.

You?

My best one was a Modest Mouse.

Okay.

But I lost it.

But it had a raised, like almost like a felt buffalo on it.

Oh, shit.

So it wasn't just like the print.

The texture.

Yeah.

Do you ever wear bad t-shirts?

I did, but I don't wear any t-shirts anyway.

I mean, I wear t-shirts, but I don't wear things with things on them.

I don't want everyone to be like, yeah, it says unsubscribe.

What's that all about?

Okay, that's your hell.

Yeah.

Okay, cool.

But I have, I still have from when I was 16 a Weezer t-shirt where they're all in Elvis outfits, jumpsuits.

Oh, cool.

And they reissued that with the new bass player, but this is back when they had the first bass player.

Hell yeah.

Oh, so it is, they've added in the first place.

Oh, okay.

Wow.

With AI?

Yeah, they did it with AI, probably.

I wouldn't put it past them.

Phil Red anyway.

Now you are anti-chocolate and mint or just anti-mint?

Well, the red velvet idea with a mint frosting.

Yeah.

I was rejecting.

But do you like chocolate and mint?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

I think it was the color idea, but I guess it is Christmassy if you have red velvet with a green mint.

Yeah.

But that makes sense.

Look, let that be your plan this Christmas.

This is a fun thing for you to tackle this.

I don't know.

Just hear those sleigh bells jiggling

too.

Do you, Casey Novak?

Yes.

You like mint?

I do.

I love mint.

What about cilantro?

Yeah, I'm okay with

cilantro.

Yeah, say

whatever your country am I in.

Yeah, my bells are a blender now.

Yeah, I love cilantro.

Yeah, me too.

I feel like it's either love or hate.

But it's because it tastes like soap to someone.

It's a genetic thing, so it's not even like, I think, a preference.

So I don't judge anyone for not liking it.

Well, Sidney Sweeney has good genes, so we'll have to see.

Sweet Dave Jane.

We'll have to see whether she likes it or not.

I don't know about this.

Is there a good or a bad way to feel about cilantro?

Well, we'll tell you.

We'll have to do a suave of Sidney Sweeney's mouth.

Okay.

Are you guys pro?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right, great.

Is there another one like that where it's people love or pretty much?

I feel like I am that way with every artificial sweetener?

Like, I can't.

The fact that

other people don't spit it out immediately is.

But don't you go to Dairy Queen?

Aren't you pro?

Okay, come at me.

Okay.

No, wait, artificial.

Oh, you mean like aspartame?

I mean, like, yeah,

I was thinking like chemical.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

Yeah, yeah, like invented flavors, right?

Yeah, that's fine.

No, no, that's fine.

Okay.

But like, yeah, the invented sweetness is my wish.

Is it too sweet for you or is it?

No, it just tastes like.

It's like, ugh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

can't enough.

I love Diet Coke, though.

Yeah, and I'm fine with losing my memory.

Like, that's fine.

Yeah,

is that what it does?

There's like new studies.

What's my excuse for losing my memory if I'm not quick as Diet Coke?

There's some studies with like Alzheimer's research with it being connected to

DC.

Yeah.

But who wants to remember stuff?

You know what I mean?

I guess people.

I don't know.

People.

I should make jokes about this.

But anyway, yes.

Yeah, it's

a real thing.

Like, can either of you guys remember like two weeks ago what happened in your...

Like off the top of your...

Give me what's today?

Today is the 15th.

So the first one was

Tuesday, the 1st of October.

Yes.

You maybe turned over a calendar.

I was definitely turning over a calendar.

And it was a Tuesday.

Oh, yeah.

So it was Taco Tuesday.

You probably had Tacos.

Is this Taco Tuesday?

It's Tunie Tuesday at...

Wait, it's Taco Tuesday.

Never mind.

It's not Tuny Tuesday anywhere anymore.

It used to be at KFC.

Oh, I missed that.

Used to have $2 movies, dude.

Do you ever have second-run movie theaters?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And Tuesdays are still cheap, too.

Yeah.

But now they're like 10 bucks.

Yeah.

Right.

But so that's what everybody did, basically.

Two weeks ago.

Yeah.

Okay.

Great.

Yeah.

I look back on it with fondness.

No, I'm going to journal because the past week was so crazy I need to go through it because I want to remember it.

So I'm going to sit down and intentionally.

I think it's too late.

Oh, it's too late.

You got to do it the day of.

Well, the rest is still unwritten.

Oh, that is true.

Do you feel like you're staring and you take out your journal?

Are you a good journaler?

No.

Okay.

I'm intermittent.

But journaling.

Do you feel like you're staring at the blank page before you?

And then you're like, oh, fuck, I got to open up this dirty window.

Yeah.

The window, always dirty.

Don't know how to clean it.

Did you ever try and keep a diary or a journal?

Yeah.

I think I did.

As like a writing exercise.

When?

What age?

20s.

Oh.

I was in my teens and I was basically my thing was if I write this down, somebody's going to find this book.

And then it wasn't anything bad I was writing, but it was like, oh, these are the things.

They'll just say it.

They'll just repeat it in a dumb voice.

Yeah.

Today I went to the store.

Classic.

No, I think it's good.

People should journal.

Yeah.

It's pro-journaling, anti-red velvet.

Okay.

We're starting to see the full picture of what Casey's all with mint.

With anti-red velvet in general.

No, I just never really had it too much.

Yeah.

I mean, no one.

I don't seek it out.

Yeah.

I don't think anyone's had it too much.

Okay.

And you, last time you were here, you were living here in Vancouver.

Correct.

Now you have relocated to the Big Apple.

Big Apple.

And how's it going?

Good.

I want to redefine the

phrase, right?

Like, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

Like, I physically made it there, so I can physically make it anywhere.

That's how I want to.

Yeah, where were you like to make it now that you can find it?

Oh, I don't know.

Riot.

Minnesota.

Oh, God.

Oh, boy.

Hey, you know what?

That campaign?

it's working.

Yeah.

On everyone's lips.

Geez, Louise.

What a time.

What a time.

So you live in New York.

Take us through, what's your lifestyle?

You live in an apartment?

Are you living?

Okay.

Moved in with a best friend to their apartment, and this has been a beloved apartment in our friend group.

Other friends have lived there.

Now, you are.

I have friends.

Do you?

You're from where originally?

Ohio.

Ohio.

And then you move here.

I do.

Some things happen in between, I'm sure.

Correct.

And then you move there.

Yep.

And so the friends, your best friend was already living there.

Yes, yes.

Please come live with me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She needs money.

It's a nice little like two-bedroom.

Yeah.

Well, actually, three-bedroom, technically.

Ah, what's in the third little office?

Place to do your YouTube workouts.

Right.

Well, yes, yes.

And right now we're calling it the Doom Room because it's just like clutter, like just all the

overflow of everything else.

Were you traveling light coming from here to New York, or did you have stuff in Cincinnati that you transferred over to New York?

A little bit.

Yeah.

I'm like leaving little clues for myself later on.

I don't know.

Yeah, but those clues jog the old memory.

It is like a squirrel situation that I'm trying to take upon myself.

You know, I need to get better at packing.

Are you guys good at packing?

Yes.

To move?

No, just like travel.

Oh, I don't know.

I'm very good.

Yeah,

I've been told by agents that have done a fantastic job packing.

What's the hack?

Like, what's your philosophy?

And what agents do you think he's talking about?

Real estate.

No, it's Hollywood.

Yeah,

I just, I jang it together very well.

Okay.

Do you do the rolling method?

I do the rolling method.

I also stuff things inside of other things.

Do you use the rhythm method?

I use the rhythm method.

And then when I arrive, I use the pull-out.

Hell yeah.

How many, are you just like, these are my pants for the week?

Yeah, it depends on what the forecast of the week is going to be.

Is there potential cold snap or is there potential accidentally spilling something on my I'm going to eat like a chili dog wherever I go?

Sure, I'm going to the piss pants conference.

Is that pro-piss pants or anti-piss pants?

And also, am I like, even if I'm good, well, my guy sitting next to me, this is my pants.

Wait, what are piss pants?

Pants you piss in?

Yeah, yeah, okay.

Got it, got it.

I just want to feel like pants, you piss in.

I want to be in the loop.

You got it.

Have you had any tums yet?

No, it's more like an emotional support tums okay just

yeah yeah yeah yeah i have the same thing i always have to know where's the closest bathroom at all times wherever i am in any situation like well yeah gotta wait until i get home to take care of business or you know i can get the bay in time yeah the bay's gone i know but i could probably be around the corner of it or something no it's like an fbi agent where you know you need to know the exits that's right exactly yeah yeah yeah um so uh you're living for the pal living in new york you're living you told us off mic Mike.

Upper West Side.

Upper East Side.

Oh, Upper East Side.

Oh, she moved.

That's the home blaze of East Side Mario's, right?

That's Upper West Side Mario.

Yeah.

Bada boom.

Bada bing.

So what are you what are you doing in New York?

Are you working?

No, no, I'm not doing much, you guys.

Are you doing sets?

Yes, I just started doing sets in September.

I was scared.

I'm scared of New York.

September.

New York is scary.

New York is scary.

Everyone's so good.

The first mic I did there, it was in a bowling alley.

It was just for other comics, like Mike, open mic style.

Everyone's so great.

They could have been, they have a Type 5.

They should be on late night.

Yeah.

The two that are left.

Yeah.

But everyone's like, does anyone want to go on late night anymore, I guess?

I guess.

Or Don't Tell or the other ones.

Yeah.

Don't tell is the big one, right?

Yeah, I think so.

What's the other?

What the other big one?

I guess if you were in Tony Hinchcliffe's.

It's a

started as like

doing shows in kind of odd locations like a bowling alley or something like that.

And then it's turned into they do recordings of people they do like, you know, 10 sets or whatever in san diego or wherever the comedians know they're being recorded nope and it's usually mostly in the bathroom when you're changing your piss pants okay amazing yeah um called children yeah yeah um they did one in canada yeah you know it's very exciting yeah yeah i know who was on it but did they release them already uh yes okay yeah they just did yeah they're like don't call us out i know who's on it yeah it really works go tell

me um so yeah no i just started going to mic's uh last month otherwise i've been real lazy you guys i'm just walking around we're right by the river so I'm walking up and down that river and I get a few droplets in my mouth.

I'm like, East River, am I infected now?

Is this how it ends?

Why are you

walking open-mouthed around the river?

I really need to talk to my doctor.

I don't, I cannot close my mouth because I'm screaming.

I'm a little scared because I was in Montana last week and it's at elevation, like it's 3,500 feet meters.

I don't know, but like on the flight home, I was like, oh, it is a struggle to breathe right now.

So, right, really?

Yeah, yeah.

Glad to be in Canada.

Wow, that's usually the feet around

the plains or something.

3,500 feet is enough to last Quentin Tarantino a weekend.

Ah!

Someone at the festival I was at, they were like, What's the name of Quintin Tarantino's movie theater?

I was like, Foot Theater, but they thought I was being serious.

They're like, Oh, well, where is Foot Theater?

Yeah, I was like, No, it was a joke.

Maybe I'm not funny anymore.

You're funny at all.

Sorry, I'm messing with the headphones.

Things are going sideways.

That's great.

Yeah, it's when you go to a new place to see comedy, you really do get a sense of, wow, people are really doing their best sets all the time.

I feel like I've done that in New York and LA where I'm like, whoa, whoa, everybody's showcasing everything.

They're not working on new material at all.

This is like really good five minutes, like you say.

It's nuts, yeah.

Always be showcasing, apparently.

But now all you need is one minute.

You go and kill Tony.

You just need that one minute.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

One of those guys is on SNL now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's very funny.

That's all it takes.

Do your one minute.

Okay, everybody.

Get it down.

Okay, here we go.

How's everybody doing tonight?

Time's ticking.

This is what you're using?

Oh, yeah.

Hey, who's smoking weed tonight?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, me too.

Like, it looks like that guy is too.

Hey, mister, what do you mean?

We're a little bit wrong.

He got him.

Good.

It's medicinal.

I have glaucoma.

And so, and so on and so forth.

So I'm in the front row.

Yeah.

To see you better.

Yes, all the better to see you with.

Jesus.

That was great.

Why is that wolf-looking old lady in the front row?

All the better to see you with.

Yeah, she's the wolf.

She's my grandmother.

Woo.

You do stand-up.

Do you do sketch?

Do you do improv?

I did improv.

I actually started with improv.

And did you, do you...

You've gone away from it forever?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I did.

My line is like, I did a lot of improv in Ohio, which is like saying you had a lot of sex sex in prison.

Like, it was, there wasn't a quality control on that statement.

Sex in prison is actually pretty good.

Pretty good from your experience.

We have some of the best guys.

Cool.

Yeah.

I didn't watch applause.

But anyway, but

it's pretty hard-hitting stuff.

I bet.

Yeah.

Yeah, but I started with improv, but then I didn't want to pay to be on a team again when I moved here.

So that's when I started doing stand-up.

But mainly writing.

I'm a writer.

I want to not talk to anyone and just write.

What do you want to write?

Jokes for people.

hire me.

Oh, okay.

For like an award ceremony, that kind of thing.

All right, well, okay, Graham and I are going to host the Oscars this year.

So, amazing.

We need

to kick out who was going to do it.

It was going to be, I want to say, Kimmel Conan.

Was it what's Nate Bergazzi hosting?

He did the entire industry at the moment.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

So big.

Yeah.

Anyway, so we need 500 jokes about

the Smashing Machine.

Yes.

I'm there.

I can't wait to see it.

Sri Ed comedy.

You can't wait to see it.

Yeah.

The Rock trying to get an Oscar.

Yeah, I want to see that.

It looks like a terrible bummer from the moment.

Yeah.

Yeah, from frame one to frame one of the trailer.

It looks like that.

What was the Jeremy Allen White movie with the wrestling brothers?

It looks like Eagle Hook.

Yeah.

This looks like

it was called.

It was the guy's move.

He is

an Eagle Claw.

Oh, yeah.

Iron Claw.

Iron Claw.

Yes.

Eagle Hook was pretty good.

Eagle Hook was pretty good.

It looks sad in that way where men can't have feelings, so they wrestle each other to death.

It looks like one of those movies.

It's what we were taught in school.

Yeah.

Have you seen The Wrestler?

No.

Oh, it's a real uplifting.

Okay, great.

Great.

Great.

The fighter is, I think, the same.

It's pretty bleak.

Yeah.

I guess Rocky's like the only feel-good

fisticuff.

Yeah, probably.

Unless you consider Every Which Way But Loose, where Clint Eastwood and an orangutan often get into fights as they're driving a truck across the country.

No, I haven't seen that.

Was that a series of movies?

Was there like an anyway?

I do for sure.

Any which way you can, any which way but loose?

You know what?

He's still alive.

Still alive.

That orangutan, also still alive.

Get them back on the screen together.

Do you,

like, if you...

Would you be your ideal writing, like late-night writing?

Yeah, yeah.

That's what I was going for.

Packet?

Yeah, I've submitted so many times.

Oh, yeah.

I've gotten so many no's.

Yeah.

Well, that's good.

They get back to you.

Yeah.

Do they really get back to you?

Yeah, actually, yeah.

This hour has

very sweetly.

Yeah.

Just give me a little hope.

Yeah.

A little hope.

Yeah.

A little glimmer.

Yep.

If you if you had your brothers,

where would you write jokes for?

Oh, last week tonight.

Last week tonight.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

They're so great.

But I applied to them and it didn't work out.

So I think it's a one and done situation.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, really?

Go team.

Yeah.

That's what I heard.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I mean, that's why I'm waiting to apply.

Yeah, you don't want to shoot your wad.

Or blow your wad.

Wow.

Yeah.

I really can't think.

I'm going to do them both.

You're a dynamic writer.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's not one and done.

Yeah.

But yeah, I'm, I'm hireable.

Yeah.

I'm unemployed.

Very, very hireable.

Thank you.

Thanks, Graham.

What was the last job interview you had to do?

Oh, my God.

That's a great question.

This is sort of one.

Oh, yeah, this is kind of one.

We only take one packet a year.

Where do you see yourself in 500 years?

She says, on this podcast.

I think the last job interview I had was the job I got fired from, the first time I've ever been fired.

Which was?

So it was for a French bakery in Vancouver.

Okay.

And I worked there for a month.

Le Petit de Refrancais.

No,

not so French, but a little.

And that's a little French.

I know what she's talking about.

Le Prince, Les Beguette, whatever.

But anyway, so

the manager took me out to the shed shopping.

Oh, no.

I'm not joking.

And

they're like, as you know, you're in your trial period.

I was like, I did not know that.

You're under baby.

And they were like, it's just not a good fit.

And what I know at the time, and then there was some other stuff going on, I was very depressed at that time, not hiding it.

But I literally, I'm pretty sure I got fired for being too depressed to work at a French bakery.

For the French.

Yeah.

Too depressed for the French.

This was the guy French that was giving you the turf.

Some of them were.

You need to work at like a check bakery.

Yeah.

Actually, I do.

Because I, yeah, we're Ukrainian in my blood.

Yeah, me too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What, as Ukrainians, what good feelings?

What's like...

What's some good Ukrainian to Ukrainian culture sharing?

She's from the East.

You're from the West.

How do you guys each do Ukrainianism?

How do you celebrate it?

Yeah, pierogi.

Pierogies.

I don't do a lot of Ukrainian stuff.

Abasa, a little

sure.

Support the right side of the war.

Okay, yeah.

See, there you go.

Like a good exchange.

Yeah.

Got like five flip-flop on it.

I'm playing both sides.

A real Mitt Romney?

Wasn't that the big accusation for Mitt Romney?

He was a flip-flopper.

Oh, sure.

I remember that being like a sick burn during that election.

Everything leading up to Trump's first presidential win.

So quaint.

Absolutely.

Everything that, like, that guy that got kicked out for going like, yeah, Howard Dean.

He got kicked out.

Yes.

Michael Dukakis got kicked out because he was in a tank.

He got out.

Well, voted not for.

Same difference.

Yeah, and now we're in the culture of like Grin and Barrett, Trump from the Thailand Altar.

Any one of those things would have eliminated him.

Oh, yeah.

He's impervious.

Yeah.

It's narrow.

So yeah, right, like flip-flopper.

Or John Kerry was on a U-boat or something.

What was he on?

Well, I believe it was a Swift boat.

He put his dog on top of the...

No, that was Mitt Rodney.

Oh, shoot.

Okay.

He had two things going on.

What did Mitt Rodney do?

He put his dog on top of the car and drove like

family vacation.

Yeah.

Like in like a crate.

Yeah, binders of women.

He said corporations are people, my friend.

Eves dropping.

Great moments.

But yeah, I feel like the core issue would have been the dogs.

Yeah, but he was a flip-flopper.

Yeah, you can't have that.

There's also like a thing like, what candidate would you most like to have a beer with?

Yeah.

Oh, right, right, right, right.

For me, it's sleeves rolled up, Obama.

Yeah.

He's the last guest on what the fuck.

The

I think it's just called WTF.

Oh, thank you very much.

Yeah.

It's a family show.

This is a family show.

Did you listen?

Is it out?

I just saw Mark Marin's post about it.

Is it out?

Did they have snipers on the room?

We should listen to it now.

I'm sure they did it.

Yeah, why don't we do a quick channel?

Let's just listen to the part where Mark Marin's just talking.

Yeah.

And then we'll skip the interview.

Did you a fan?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I was a fan the first few years it was on, and it was all comedians and he was like hashing out his bad behavior.

That was great.

I liked it when he got into big celebrities and you would get like, hey, so what's it like being Iron Man?

Yeah, yeah.

The deep cuts.

Who's your guy on Iron Man?

Wow, Spider-Man.

But did you guys start the podcast around the same time?

No.

We started it first.

We started before.

Oh, okay.

Hell yeah.

But same, like, before I started doing stand-up, that's how I got into wanting to do it.

Like, it was inspiring to me, yeah.

And who did you like?

What interview were you like?

Man, that guy's

that guy or gal is so fun.

So many.

Shoot.

I hate.

Sorry.

Whenever I'm on the spot, I blank.

It's the Diet Coke.

It's the Diet Coke.

It is

the worst when you're like, I know there's something so good in there.

So good.

And I took notes, but I didn't take a note about this one.

It'll come to me in like 40 minutes.

That's all right.

He'll be here.

Thank you.

How about you?

Standout?

I thought his Gallagher's great.

Gallagher's great.

Gary Shandling's was fantastic.

And Norm McDonald's was like very unexpectedly sweet and

very

like deep kind of conversation.

Yeah.

Those are the big three I remember.

I remember like the first year when it was like just not even famous comedians.

Just comedians.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That he had done wrong somehow.

Yeah.

Or that he was like worried he had.

Does he still say that at the end of the pod?

Are we all good?

Does he say that to Barack Obama?

Do I know?

Casey, do you know?

No, I tapped out.

Okay.

Around 2017.

I tapped out, I think, with a lot of shows when they started doing two a week.

Like this,

WTF started doing two a week, and I was like, well, this is not my full-time job.

Yeah, yeah.

Right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because his episodes would be like two plus.

Eight hours long.

Yeah, for sure.

Very long.

Hike, maybe I should go back and listen to those episodes while I'm like washing dishes and stuff, evacuating the apartment.

I mean, it's a great archive because it'll be there forever.

What you don't know that now that he's done, he may be tearing it down.

Well, yeah, the free speech of it all.

Yes,

I was just in Montana, you guys.

I'm scared.

Tell us all about Montana.

But you've been living in New York.

What's different?

Well, for one, everything is a casino.

I didn't expect that.

And every business has an attached casino.

Yeah.

It's

so you can really have joy everywhere you go.

Sure.

Are you a casino person?

yeah, I like slots.

Yeah,

I got ready for a joke.

Davis, excuse me, putting it in his packet, right?

Slots.

Oh, yeah, I guess there are certain body parts that resemble those.

And then maybe uh blackjack, because I can understand that one.

Yeah, hit me.

How about you guys?

Do you play cards?

I play cards, but I don't, I find casinos to be very, very depressing.

Yeah, they're so sad.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They're the American retirement home.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's

but yeah, there are a lot of casinos in the Pacific Northwest giant kind of square that would include Montana.

It's a big casino country out here.

Yeah.

Like in New York, you probably don't see a casino anywhere.

Actually, I think there's something they're lobbying to bring one in at the moment, but hopefully we defeat it.

You're on board.

You're taking signatures?

I play fast and loose with my opinions, you guys.

I can be persuaded either way at the moment, but I think for some reason they're bad, but I forget why.

No, they're good.

Okay.

Overruled.

They're good because they're fun.

It's nice to see boys to men there.

Yeah.

That's right.

Yeah.

Have you ever gone to a show in a casino?

No, not properly.

We went to Atlantic City, which I appreciated just because of the Bruce Springsteen song.

Atlantic City is a place that we do with a casino.

Exactly.

Sing the chorus.

Have you ever seen one leg it down?

That's from the wrestler.

But are you excited about the biopic that's coming out?

Do you get enthused about the pictures?

Yeah.

I'm not excited about that one.

I don't care much about Bruce Springsteen and I don't care much about the bear.

Fair enough.

Oh, yeah.

Fair enough.

I care about Shameless now, though.

Rumi and I watched all of Shameless together.

He was on that.

He was on that.

And I assume that's fantastic.

It's amazing.

Yeah.

So great.

Yeah.

And it's Bill Macy.

Yeah.

The Bill Macy program.

Dave calls it Bill because he's pals.

Oh, Bill, Bill Macy.

Bill Macy.

And it was originally a BBC show, which I didn't realize that they translated for American audiences.

Into English?

Into Chicago.

Okay.

Yeah.

Who was the Bill Macy in BBC?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I did not do my research.

What are you looking for?

Do you Springsteen?

Yeah.

Love Springsteen.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't roll that deep with all the information that I have right now, but I love those songs.

Like my dad played them a lot growing up.

I think that's

a lot of millennials' introduction.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Their dad played it.

I met a woman years ago.

She was obsessed with Bruce Springsteen in a way that I was like,

this woman has no room in her life for any other guy.

That's Bruce Springsteen.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm kind of that way.

Are you looking forward to any movies?

Jeez, Louise, I'm not even sure what's coming out.

Because it's Oscar season, I guess, technically.

It's getting there.

Yeah.

Did you see

one battle after another?

No, I need to.

I'm excited about that last night.

You saw it last night for the first time?

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Kept trying to go,

but just something always came and got in the way.

So I just saw it last night.

And the great thing about it is when it's super quiet, you can hear the projector running.

Yeah, it's the only 70 millimeter

in Western Canada.

But I forgot how much of that was a part of going and seeing a movie, was hearing that sound.

Oh, wow.

I was about to try to do this sound.

I don't think I can.

There it is.

Okay, close.

Yeah.

I was like, turn it up.

Yeah.

Loop that ASMR.

Was it full?

No, it was probably

half full.

Oh, it depends how you look at it.

Yeah, that's true.

And for the first

couple of weeks, it was

not like...

No, not like sold out, but like very full.

Yeah.

Because I went the opening weekend and then Abby went a couple weeks after me and it was still very full.

Yeah.

And

she had a crowd that loved it, like a crowd that was like cracking up at everything.

Yeah.

That's fun.

She didn't like that about it.

Oh, okay.

She was like, these guys are over laughing.

Okay.

I had in my screening of it, there was one person who was like,

just guffon.

It's just comedy.

It's got fun.

It's got some funny, yeah, funny bits in it for sure.

It's got funny performances, I guess, more than jokes.

And then there's like some action stuff that happens.

And the one person in the theater went, woo.

Hell yeah!

That's kind of fun.

Hell yeah.

I like that.

Did you go?

You haven't seen it.

I haven't seen it yet, but you guys, you liked it.

Yeah,

we liked it.

Should it change your mind, your life?

I don't know.

It's like one of those movies that's being presented to me as like, this is gonna mess you up.

Well, it's not, I don't think it was that.

Okay.

It was good.

Like, everybody in it, you're like, that's why they're movie stars because they're fantastic at this.

Yeah.

It cost a hundred and something million dollars.

It did not look like that.

It didn't look like that.

It's

must be Leo's.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Cause like, yeah, you're right.

It all seems like it was just kind of shot.

I don't know if it was shot in 70 millimeter.

Is that possible that it was just shot in whatever?

I don't know what they

do.

I saw it in 70 millimeter.

I've seen a few movies in 70 millimeter.

I don't know.

Yeah, I saw, I've seen two there, Oppenheimer and the Hateful Eight.

And I felt like both of those were just in one room.

And you didn't need the extra space of the screen.

It would have been fine if it was was 35 even if it was 30 i would what do you mean one room like a smaller room mostly just inside of a room yeah like

oh okay yeah there was no like vast expanses or any of that kind of thing are you looking forward to anything of the summer of the summer the summer of sloth sam are you looking forward to anything of the movie season movie season yeah i i did but again my memory's so shit right now i forgot yeah i'm excited about i don't know i mean i did want to see the smashing machine yeah i'm gonna see that the gag of it

i've here oh the the the easy and Sorry movie that's going to be coming out.

It's like a

metaphysical comedy with Keanu Reeves playing a Guardian Angel.

Yeah.

It's my kind of humor.

It looks so fun.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

I was expecting something more Oscar season-y.

No.

Why have standards anymore?

You know what I mean?

Yeah, they get in the way.

It's something that speaks to your soul.

It looks really good, though.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I feel like the smashing machine is also what a British person says when he like,

I don't know.

When he has sex?

No.

It's like.

Oh, that's a good.

That's a smashing machine.

It's a smashing machine.

When he buys a new

car.

Yeah.

I was going to say washing machine, but that's too close to smashing machine.

That makes it quainter.

That would be a good wacky package.

Yeah.

The washing machine.

And it's a washing machine that looks like the rock, but with a wig on.

Yeah, I like that.

No, yeah, that's a good thing.

He could host SNL.

That could host SNL right now.

Yeah.

A washing machine.

A wig on.

Wow.

Someone got her packet

twice.

But I do, I missed when you became in love with tar.

Like, is that?

I really liked tar a lot.

It's great.

Yeah.

Was it last year or the year before?

Maybe three years ago.

Three, maybe, yeah.

There are dozens of us.

Yeah, it's great.

Yeah, big tar fan.

It's a good

kind of like, it's 9.30.

I'm not going to stay up all night.

I'll just put on tar.

I'll fall asleep.

At 1 a.m.

No, no, I've maybe only made it through it it three times.

Okay, have you ever seen the ending?

I've seen the ending.

The ending rules.

Yeah, it does.

It's so great.

Have you seen Tar Graham yet?

No, it just wasn't for me.

I tried it.

I tried the first 20 minutes.

Actually, it's not for anyone, but that's the cool part about it.

Yeah.

Well, also, the weird thing about watching the first 20 minutes is they run the credit, like the full credits at the beginning.

Yeah.

Yeah, like a TV show.

Yeah.

Miller Boyette.

It's a Miller-Boyette production.

You're right.

Once I started watching it like a comedy, that's when I was like, like, oh, this slaps, as they say.

Oh, yeah.

Is it just supposed to be viewed as a comedy?

I don't know.

I mean, certainly

the end is very funny.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, maybe I should watch it just for the end.

See it?

Yeah.

It's got to be on a streamer, right?

It's somewhere.

I mean, I own it, so I don't know.

Physical media?

No.

Okay.

Do you have any physical media left?

Oh, that's a great question.

No, I don't.

You?

Yeah, I've got some DVDs and CDs kicking around that I think are.

You think she could move cross-country with physical media?

I did hire movers, though.

Wow.

I'm an adult now.

Yeah.

Like from the whole.

Oh, okay.

Truck drivers.

Yeah.

How long did they take?

Ooh, a month and a half.

Oh, yeah.

Does it get transferred from truck to truck?

There's not the same guy who picked the same guy.

Really?

They were all named Andre.

I'm not joking.

I was like, are you Andre?

He's like, yeah, but not the one you were talking to.

Not that guy down the hill.

He's Andre 3000.

Took like a month and a half.

I love them so much.

Did they mess with any of your stuff?

They actually, to their credit, they lost the foot of my cafe table.

Like, it's a little screw-on piece.

And I was like, hey, just on the off chance, you find this.

They found it and they shipped it back to me.

Oh, nice.

Without charging me for it.

Should do.

Yeah.

I never thought I would see that again.

I've never, I have hired movers, but certainly not city to city.

Okay, yeah.

Yeah.

It's a new thing for me.

You have pieces that you love at this point.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it worked out.

So that's nice.

Yeah.

But now there's no room for the cafe table, so I have to sell it.

I don't know what to do with it.

I just put it out in the street put it in there put it in the third room that's no no no there's no room there

well do you have any other ideas I don't know what a cafe table is I don't I because it's not like a regular dining table and it's not a desk I guess it's French for coffee table

yeah yes cafe

oh someone's getting fired from her cheetzerie job It's like, how do I call this back in a non-dead way?

But no, it was originally like a headboard with wooden slats, and that was converted into a table with like wrought iron legs.

Okay.

You want to make any jokes?

Can you picture what she's talking about?

Nope.

No.

I was just doing a lot of mime.

That made me uncomfortable, though.

It was like legs.

Yeah, it's got legs on a kind of a table.

It's like milking a table.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, you get it.

I get it.

Yeah.

Great.

How high is that one right now?

Do you eat at it?

Do you put it?

It's pretty high.

Do you eat at it?

Do you type at it?

Both.

Yeah.

I don't have enough room to not have multi-dimensional furniture.

Yeah.

No.

Well, there was a desk there, and it's one of those,

you push a button and it raises a standing desk.

You raise.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that plays every time I hit that button.

It's a Canadian table.

So I can do a Zoom call.

Outstanding.

Yeah.

So I might keep that one.

It's the real Sophie's choice at the moment between which Josh Groban and Canadian Josh Groban, not Canadian.

Really?

Yeah.

Why did I think?

Oh, Bublay.

I get them.

Bouble.

My apologies to them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, who did Booblay?

Booblais owns the Vancouver Giants,

the

Western Hockey League Junior hockey team.

And I think I heard he just brought on co-owners, the Property Brothers.

No.

Yeah.

Wild.

So they might do a Zooie De Chanel night at the end of the day.

That would be great.

I'm surprised the team was Giants and not Crooners.

You know, that could have been an easy, that's an easy fit for Michael Booblay.

The Vancouver Crooners?

Yeah, the Vancouver Crooners.

Dave, Dave, are you playing hockey again?

I am.

Cool.

How's it going?

Scored two goals the other night.

Hey!

Oh, yeah.

I agree.

Usually I get one every five games.

Okay.

Yeah, you're on fire.

I'm on fire.

Won a couple of last-minute face-offs, really helped my team out.

Nice.

Were they lots of pats on the back?

They kind of like tried to put me on their shoulders, but I reminded them we're wearing skates.

Yeah.

Ooh, yeah.

So come on, guys.

What's the age range in the team?

Oh, what am I?

44 is from 44 to 500.

I guess it's about 40 to 60.

Great.

Great.

So I'm still one of the young speedsters.

Yeah.

Nice.

That's why you scored those goals.

Yeah.

Well, normally I'm not so good with my hands.

What are you usually

when you're playing?

What's your position?

I'm usually a winger.

A winger.

If we have a really full team, I'll play.

third line center.

Nice.

Okay.

Yeah, I don't know those positions.

I just thought of a maxi pad with wings.

That's all I think.

That's all you think?

Yeah.

Do you play the sides?

Is that?

Okay, got it.

All right.

I got there.

Do you do any physical sport?

No, I need to.

I do want to join a team sport.

Or do a mental sport.

Ooh.

You said physical, but I'm like.

Yeah, what about mental gymnastics?

Yes.

Mental mind fuckery.

I do that a lot.

Yeah, too.

Pub trivia.

Actually,

I went to a bingo night, and I thought it would be not fun, but it was so fun.

It's so fun.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What's the average age there?

Ooh, Gen Z, I think.

Oh, really?

It was younger in that neighborhood.

I guess like a lot of the OG

bingo players that...

I mean, O and G are part of bingo.

Nice.

Yeah,

it was all seniors in the year.

They're dead.

They're dead, exactly.

And it was like a hip little bar, but it was definitely.

It was very smoky back in the day, too.

Yeah, you smoked.

The price for winning the rounds at this place, it was doing like chugging a beer.

So that was the reward.

So I feel like that's a young person.

Yes, that's a young person's game.

I was like, I hope I I don't win.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You don't just get a beer.

You have to chug it.

You have to chug it.

At gunpoint?

No, you know what?

Now it's all coming back to me, Celine, Dion.

No, it was, if there was a tie, then you would race off to see who won, but they did have prizes every round.

It's all coming back to me, Meatloaf.

Is that, wait, did I mess it up?

Both did it.

Really?

Yeah.

Oh,

look at them.

Synergy.

And if whichever one you like, that tells you a lot about that person.

Yeah.

What's the difference?

Yeah.

If you're a meatloaf versus Celine.

Yeah, what's the difference?

Yeah,

lots of things.

I wish they would do like a Jeremy Ellen White as Meatloaf by Open.

It'll get there

after this.

I was listening to this podcast about...

Would it just be called Loaf?

What would the name of the meatloaf be?

Oh, John Out of Hell?

Yeah.

Or Out of Hell or something.

Out of Hell.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Or just Batman.

Yeah.

So that people come and see it.

They did this podcast about who wrote all the songs?

Jim Steinman?

Is that his name?

Yeah.

And

he wrote.

John Steinbeck.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He wrote all of the Better to Hell songs and then all of Meatloaf's hits.

But he also wrote,

what's the Total Eclipse of the Heart?

Oh, really?

That was my favorite song when I was 12.

There were like versions of it.

He had this musical written.

There's a version of it in a musical like way before he was famous.

Wow.

He just kept holding on to the lines of it.

He's like, I know this can be a hit.

And Meatloaf wanted to do it so bad, and he would never let him.

Oh, wow.

Turn around.

Yeah.

Yeah, because that would have been really weird with Meatloaf.

I think it would work.

I think it would work fine.

I really need you tonight.

Yeah, it would have worked.

But I love the one who did it.

What's her name?

What's her name?

Bonnie Tyler.

I was about to say Bonnie Rait.

Okay.

Pretty close.

Close.

One Bonnie.

No cigar.

Speaking of cigars, a lot of people in New York still smoke.

Yeah.

Yeah.

yeah i see like stubs like the end of the cigar yeah or the yeah the lingo is that the lingo of it yeah i see those yeah yeah but smoking is like people smoke in new york still yeah but more vaping just like here yeah it's sad remember when murito lopez was here and was like just talking about how he loves cigars nice nice do you any have you ever had a cigar no i've only had one cigarette in my life And you were like, not for me.

Yeah, I felt nauseous too.

Did you count how many you had?

What's that?

How many, like, can you you estimate or did you did you keep a diary of how many cigarettes you had cigarettes oh no i mean in the hundreds of thousands i suppose oh my god when did you quit uh when i was

like more than 20 years ago oh wow what was the most you did in a day like a pack or more oh i used to smoke a pack of day by the time i was wow by the time i gave it up so man yeah it does sound fun it is fun it's great yeah it's a great way to spend your money yeah yeah yeah yeah it's so rare now that I smell it from a block away.

Yeah, that's the thing.

And always when people are smoking here, they're from Alberta or they're from Toronto.

Or they're working construction.

Construction sites is where I smell it the most.

Like I smell a mix of cigarette smoke and like dust.

Yeah.

That actually sounds like an okay drywall.

Yeah.

Like a nice scent profile.

Respect.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Hell yeah.

Did you smoke over?

Okay.

Yeah.

You smoked cigars, right?

Oh.

I

no.

No?

Have I?

I don't know.

I don't believe so.

Yeah, I've just, I've come across I've smelled them, and I love the smell.

That smells awesome.

Yeah, they're not as, well, no, that's not true.

They are fun to smoke.

You get to do O's and you get to just like hold it through your nose.

And you used to get one when you had a kid.

Like, that's a hospital issue.

Yeah.

And it was me and these other two men from Orientar.

We tried to light one, but it turns out it was a rubber cigar.

Oh, interesting.

What happened?

It was loaded and exploded.

Oh, shit.

Classic.

Very classic.

Yeah.

I mean,

Christmas spoof songs.

It's the best time of year.

Yeah, nobody really takes on the Halloween.

Deck the halls with Santa's balls.

Jingle Bells, Batman smells.

Classic, yeah.

Joy to the world.

You're singing no Halloween songs.

Well, no, no Halloween spoofs.

Yeah, oh no.

But you know, you've got your thriller, you've got your Monster Mash.

You've got Ghostbusters theme.

Yeah, and it's been documented.

They keep trying to add anything to a playlist.

Disturbia by Rihanna.

I feel like Mayhem by Agaga fits the category this year.

Is that new?

Yeah.

New Gaga.

New Gaga.

New Gaga just dropped.

I was listening to old, there's like a

Spotlight Spotify playlist.

It's all old Halloween songs, like from the 50s.

Oh, There were so many of them.

Mash?

I feel like it's a spooky dookie party.

It is totally cool.

That's exactly what it is.

And there's like a hundred of them.

Dracula's driving in a cat.

Okay.

Okay.

Take it away, boys.

I wonder if they're still making money off those songs.

Maybe it's someone's nest.

I think they're probably all dead.

Oh, okay, great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then, is that what happens when you're dead?

Or do you keep getting royalties?

Yeah, then it's the estate.

The estate.

And then the estate gets mad at people.

But these are probably old enough that anybody here could do a cover of it.

And

you're fine.

Has it entered the

public domain yet?

Yeah.

Well, Spooky Dookie Cadillac is the name of yours.

Spooky Dookie Party and then Dracula and Cadillac.

It's going to be Catadrac.

That's a rewrite.

That's just a first draft.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Forgive me.

I was on an Ohio improv team.

Legit, yeah, my level.

No Thanksgiving songs, though, period, right?

Jingle Bells was originally a Thanksgiving song.

What is that trivia for you?

Huh?

Same lyrics?

Yeah,

there's nothing Christmas in the lyrics.

It's about dashing through the snow and a warm horse open slight.

Jingle bells want to be

on a Christmas stage.

Yeah, there's no.

And then the great Thanksgiving movies are like planes, strains, and automobiles.

I can't come up with a second one.

Yeah, yeah.

Thanksgiving movie?

Yeah.

I'm sure there's a second one.

There should be a hundred of them because America's crazy for Thanksgiving.

No, it's true.

Yeah.

I just did the one here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was Canadian Thanksgiving yesterday.

It was.

And?

It was great.

Yeah.

We had chicken.

Okay.

Potatoes.

We.

My friends I'm staying with.

Your pals?

My pals.

And then we have pumpkin pie.

Oh, nice.

Very important.

Well, actually, I brought the pie, so I brought pumpkin, berry pie, and a slice of apple for the person who didn't like either

other option.

Nice view.

I love pie.

It's really pretty.

We were talking about pie just an episode ago.

But also, I feel like.

I was trying to catch up.

I was listening to Spies on 1.5 speed.

Sure.

I was trying to piece.

I listened to it on three times.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I feel like if it's Thanksgiving

and you don't like any of the, if you don't like pumpkin pie, just you're, you're, you're out of luck.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Maybe we'll have a chocolate bar that you could eat just to be with us.

But that's nice you bring over a whole slice for somebody.

Yeah, well, and also the pies I got, those were half pies.

So technically I got one full pie.

A sidecar.

Yeah.

What is the one?

There's a Christmas song that mentions pumpkin pie.

Yes.

It's rocking around the Christmas tree.

And then people think.

Later we'll have some pumpkin pie.

Yeah, and we'll do some caroling.

But Home Alone happens.

People think, or some people have thought that she's saying, later we'll have some fucking pie.

Yeah.

Be clever about it.

The envelope.

Dave, what's going on with you, man?

Oh, boy.

Well, did I mention that it was Christmas yesterday?

It was Canadian Christmas.

Canadian Christmas.

Oh, we should do that.

We should do Canadian Christmas.

I mean, it's too late to trick our listeners into thinking we have that.

Yeah, Canadian Christmas is November 2nd.

But you guys do have Boxing Day, and that's different.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The English do it.

Yeah.

So

it has been really great knowing you both.

And you as well.

Okay.

No, it has been a really pretty fall here.

There are a lot of sunny days.

And I like that the sun is like lower in the sky.

Yeah.

And

colors?

The colors.

The colors are great.

Uh-huh.

Oranges.

Oh, oranges.

Yellows.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Falling.

Uh-huh.

Motion.

And there's

when I walk my dogs, the road I take

is very

it's very beautiful, but there is, there's a lot of,

I guess there must be oak trees because there's acorns coming out of them.

And the acorns land on cars so loud,

but don't seem to damage them.

But it is like the cars are being shot with

acorns only come out of oak trees.

I don't know.

I don't know.

And I also, like, I know they're basically the seed, but you can do something with one of those.

Can you eat them or something?

I mean, the squirrels seem to.

Yeah, they love it.

They got their cheeks full of them.

I wonder if you can eat one if you just heat it up like a if you were starving.

Yeah.

Like if it was a survival situation.

Probably tastes like that.

Acorns come from oak trees.

Yeah.

Can you eat them?

Yeah.

Are they edible?

Okay, hold on.

New search.

Google eat oak

acorn recipe.

Okay.

You used to not have to, like, I feel like the way people Google has changed.

It used to be just like acorn.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Edible.

And now people, can you eat an acorn?

Yeah.

It's advanced.

You can eat acorns from any oak tree after they have processed or are processed to remove the bitter, toxic tannins.

Oh,

yeah, get rid of the toxic stuff.

I wonder what an acorn tastes like.

Probably bitter and toxic.

Yeah.

They're free, right?

The key is proper preparation.

Yeah, that's the same with anal sex.

Wackle, okay, we're there.

Well, isn't it?

You get your lube.

Go talk to us.

Oh, man.

I mean, we're in such a wholesome fall and acorns and whatnot.

Dave just comes in with real censors.

I don't remember what this podcast is.

Yeah.

That's not that kind of podcast.

When you censored me earlier, I'm like, oh, yeah, should I not

censor you?

I said something, and you're like, this is a family program.

You asked if we say fucking bye.

Yeah.

Okay.

We'll talk about butt stuff.

No, we're just.

I mean, you probably get some acorns up there.

I am going to the butt doctor tomorrow.

So that's top of mind.

Yeah.

Do you still have

Canadian butt doctor coverage?

Do I?

Yeah, I'm still paying taxes.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

I'm cool.

You're welcome.

You're Welks.

Any concerns?

Yeah, no, we're managing something, but what I do want to share is that he has these old school tables.

Have you seen these tables where they tilt forward?

No, I've

mostly known cafe tables.

Yeah, yeah, fair.

I'm going to convert mine into one.

So, what is this?

It goes, you're sitting on it and it's.

No, you're so you start kneeling like at a pew, and then you put your arms.

Please, God, don't do anything to my butt.

And you put your arms forward, so your, your body's in like a 90 degree angle yes yeah and then it starts the hydraulic start it's sort of a smashing machine it's a smashing my ass machine and then i tip forward you tip forward so then you're you're you're why am i being sensitive now your ass is on you know up in the air sure and i've gotten the x

explainer from the nurse in the front she gave me a tour she's like they're actually because i was like these are from the 90s she says things like i hate my job

and i was like yeah

she i i noted them.

I'm like, they look like from the 50s.

She's like, they're from 1935.

Wow.

I was like, these were around

depression.

Yeah, all of it.

Yeah.

And they are like horror cruxes, so they're full of souls.

But anyway, so there's two of them.

And the one I go into is the only one where tall people can be on it because the other one is like a size queen and you have to be smaller.

But they're powered by a mercury vapor.

Okay.

So I started looking that up and that's how I learned that mercury.

It has a bitter tannin flavor to it.

But that's how I learned mercury was like the main course of medication until we discovered, you know, science for like syphilis and stuff.

So people would just be poisoned to death.

What do you mean it's powered by mercury vapor?

Like she was saying that he's had to hire like now all the technicians who could work and like fix them are dead now.

Like no one exists.

Yeah, but a lot of their ghosts are still working.

Oh, can you imagine you get to the other side?

Now I have to work as a proctologist.

Oh man.

You see someone's a toolbag drop while you're in there.

So that's always thrilling because it's so different.

And she explained that that's actually, it's a better way to do the exam because now they have these like multi-purpose tables and they're not good for anything, she was saying.

That's why everyone is so uncomfortable, whatever you have to do on it.

But now you like curl up into the fetal position on one of those normal tables.

But this is like.

Do they knock you out?

With a horse rank club.

Horse rank?

Yeah, they should.

I was at.

But it is a thrill.

That's why I'm back, really.

Thank you.

Yeah, I like, I mean, I don't know that I like it, but I

but you don't lump it.

You do like it.

Sure.

I just remember when, so I don't remember when I was born,

but I was born here in Vancouver at

Children's Hospital or BC Women's.

Okay.

And it back then, when I was born, it was called Grace Hospital.

But my whole childhood, it was BC Women's.

My whole life it's been BC Women's, except for when I was born.

I don't know when they changed it.

Well, I thought you can't remember when you were born.

I just know that it used to be called Grace Hospital.

And then when my kids were born there,

I saw that the curtain next to the bed still said Grace Hospital on it.

Oh, this was a 35-year-old curtain.

Yeah, it was.

Yeah.

Hell yeah.

I never thought about that.

It used to make them good.

Yeah, because like now that I think about it, the table that was in my old doctor's office had a lot of cracks in the whatever it was, the faux leather kind of.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Was like the stuffing coming out out, too?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it should have been a warning, right?

I don't know, or maybe a good thing.

This guy's been at it for a long time, yeah.

Fingers crossed.

Um, so yeah, so the weather's been nice,

very nice and falling.

Yeah, it is very nice and falling.

Acorns are smashing machines, smashing machines, yeah.

Um, but I was uh walking uh down on a really pretty day, and like you see these like uh like

I guess they're like grubs or something hanging from the trees.

There's like tiny little bugs.

They look like maggots, really.

Oh, yeah, by a thread.

Dangling from a thread.

Yes.

But you can see them all because the light is hitting them in such a way that

it's just refracting or reflecting or whatever.

Yeah.

And you see every spider web.

And I saw this woman running down jogging and she didn't realize it, but she had so many spider webs just trailing behind her.

She was like, she was

at a cape of spider webs.

That was embracing spooky season.

Yeah.

That's good.

That's part of the time.

It does.

Yeah, it does add to the time.

Yeah, I do love those.

I took a video of one last year.

They are impressive.

Cinematic.

Yeah.

Yeah, dangly.

And then I said it to Evanescence.

Did you hear back?

She said it to Evanescence.

She said I sent it to them.

I thought she said that too.

Evanescence.

Amy, your last name?

Yeah.

Check this out.

To Amy, question mark.

Amy.

Lee.

Amy Lee.

Good pull.

Yeah.

Were you a big evanescence fan?

I think I didn't have a choice.

They were so there at the time.

They were everywhere at the time.

They were.

I didn't know that they were as big as they were.

Like we talked about with Lincoln Park last week.

I was like, well, this is

a passing fancy, but for some people...

That was their

immortal.

Yeah.

Right.

I only knew, Wake Me Up.

Wake me up.

Yeah, wake me up.

Music used to be good.

Yeah, sure.

Sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The music you grew up with was always going to be locked in.

Always.

But do you listen to new music?

Do you listen to anything new?

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's like, you know, there's artists that I like that are current artists, but, you know, when you hear that song that you're like, oh, I remember

drive into this song when I was 16 or whatever, it's still there.

Although the current artists I listen to aren't, I mean, they're current, but I don't think I've discovered any since like the pandemic.

How do you mean, like, people who are already established?

Well, no, I mean, like, the things that I consider like new artists have now been around for eight years or whatever.

Okay.

Okay.

Fair.

Yeah.

Do you have a new artist that you like?

No,

that's where I'm noticing like I'm kind of losing the plot with that.

Like I'm not listening to new people.

Like I know Tate McCrae is out there, but I couldn't name a

lot of listen to Tate McCrae.

She's Canada's answer to Supreme Court.

That's right.

That's right.

That's right.

No, no, yeah, nothing really.

No, that's fine.

It's fine.

Yeah.

No worries.

Is it?

It's fine.

It's fine.

It's that time.

You actually might need to have some Tate McRae spoofs for your packet.

Oh, yeah.

Really?

That's when I do plug in when I have to write something.

I'm like, oh, all this news I've been avoiding.

Yeah.

Do you, when you send in something to SNL, is it desk jokes and character jokes and like just a sketch joke?

Yeah, there's a sketch.

There's a desk, what do they call it?

Like a desk segment.

Piece, yeah.

Desk a cafe table piece.

But like a character.

And then topicals.

Yeah, for

less.

Did you ever write like a mango?

Oh, yeah, baby.

I had three mangoes that I passed over.

No, the only sketch on the way over, I was thinking about that.

I was like, the only one I remember writing, it was transition lenses for women, where they just turned into shades when guys start saying bullshit at you.

Oh, that's fun.

Thanks.

Okay.

Yeah.

But that's the only one I remember.

It's all right.

It's fine.

It's fine.

It's fine.

And my kids' school, the kids with glasses, I would say 50% of them opted for transitions lenses.

Really?

Yeah.

Oh, crazy.

Seems like a cool idea.

They're pretty cool.

I mean, when you see them change over, it's...

What's that?

I just double up.

I wear my shades on top of my glasses.

Nice.

Yeah.

That's a good look.

I have clip-ons.

You do?

That's great.

I need to upgrade to that.

Oh, boy.

Fine.

Casey, you're doing fine.

You're not listening to new music.

Doesn't matter.

An 81-year-old man did tell me in Save On before I came here that I was young.

So I do feel I'm okay.

That's great.

Did he tell you he's 81?

Yeah, he did.

Well, okay, the setup for this was there was someone in the store making a gagging noise, but it was coughing.

Yeah, close to that.

And we both like made eye contact and we were like,

what's going on?

And he came back around.

He was like, that was someone coughing.

I was like, man, I have my own health things that I'm worried about.

Or what did I say?

I said something really funny.

I want to go into the hydraulic butt machine tomorrow.

So don't worry about me.

Oh, that's what I said.

I was like, I thought I had health problems.

He's like, oh, you're so young.

And I was like, oh, yeah, but I have stuff going on, including hydraulics and mercury vapor things.

And he's like, I'm 81.

And then he just bounced off.

And he's like, you're a kid.

I was like, okay, bye.

You look great.

Yeah.

That was great.

So I am doing great.

I am doing great.

You are doing great.

You're young.

Okay.

You're great.

You're young.

We're all young.

We're all young.

Sure.

Great.

Great.

Fix my health anxiety.

Anyway, I saw a lady with spiders around her.

Scrolls the second time around.

What's going on with you?

I was running and I got all these spider web stuff.

You didn't know it.

I didn't know it.

My

thing I did this past week,

recently in the not too distant past, I went to a two-week intensive puppet workshop.

Stop.

I did.

Cool.

So then now I'm tuned in.

I'm tuned into whatever puppet thing's going on out there.

I'm Googling.

I'm just, you know, getting recommended videos.

I'm sending it a packet.

Sending it a packet to puppets.

it's just pictures of your hand to see if they'll exist

and what about this and what if i go that way

um so there was a thing on friday that i've never heard of before called a puppet slam oh wow like oh this is for me this was in town this is in town yeah this is in town part of a giant theater building that's like houses six different theater companies and they were doing it was kind of it was amateurs professionals whoever decided they wanted to go on and man oh man, it was great.

What is the slam implies some kind of confrontation?

Yeah,

that's a good question.

It wasn't like a battle.

I think it's like something they maybe started when Poetry Slam was still going on.

In my mind, I picture a Poetry Slam as a confrontation.

I've never been to one.

It is.

With the powers that be.

Where are you?

Yeah, that's what I'm telling poems to power.

Yeah.

When I picture a Poetry Slam, I'm picturing the rat battle from 8-mile.

Yeah, well, not wrong.

Yeah, there was, would there be a winner at a poetry slam?

No, I dabbled in poetry before I got into stand-up.

Before I got everything.

Come on.

I couldn't do it because I was like, no one's laughing.

I need to really get out of here.

You wouldn't get laughs at the poetry slam?

Well, I wasn't trying to.

I was doing my feelings.

I was like, this feels awful.

If you're even a tiny bit funny at a poetry slam, you get.

Yeah, no, I know, but I didn't try to.

I was like, I just really hate this feeling.

People are very poems.

Stop about.

Poems all sizes.

Yeah,

size cream poems.

Poems about my proctologist.

Yeah.

No, it was just like earnest poetry about my life and feelings.

I was like, this sucks.

But other people were amazing.

Like, I did appreciate it.

I did some earnest poetry.

You did one?

Ice cream.

Yeah, there it is.

I know what he's going.

Ernest.

Why do you keep going to camp?

Can you save Christmas this year?

Ernest.

Hey, Vern.

I went ice cream, but that's a better reference since no one knows what I'm talking about.

Erna's ice cream.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I went to Puppets.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I went to this puppet flat.

And it was like I say, arranged.

The people who were professional were so fantastic.

Is the style of puppet generally a Muppet style?

It was one Muppet style, and then the rest was...

Oh, there were two kind of Muppet style looking things with like them ducked behind the, you know, the draped curtain thing what's that there

I don't know and I don't want to know okay I just want you just watch I thought for some

after the workshop you brought there no this is this is me just enjoying what what does the local scene have to bring yeah and you know what wow me yeah there was one guy that had a pretty big puppet his feet were attached to the puppet's feet so it looked like he was walking independently and he came up and lip-synced the song and had his arms going up in the air and everybody just killed themselves laughing.

Cool.

Then he did another song and people were like, no, we just landed the one song.

We're over it now.

Damn, no patience for puppets.

Yeah.

And so there was, they were working on some new material.

No, we just hear showcasing here.

There's scouts in the

working puppets at home.

Well, there's two very mean guys in the balcony.

That's amazing.

Yeah.

Do you want to continue?

Like, is it something you're interested in?

Now that I've seen how they do it, I'm very intimidated because the people who were good were like amazing.

Okay, yeah.

And like, the one person was two that I didn't care for, and they were both just name them.

I can't.

I don't know what they were called.

I don't remember who they were.

They were just a puppet behind a screen.

What would your puppet be?

Like, I made a couple.

Some.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, sorry.

I didn't.

There's no wood.

There's no wood.

What would your puppet be?

Who?

Tell me about your puppets.

Tell me about your puppets.

It's

mine because I went to this workshop.

Everybody there knew how to carve,

except me.

Yeah, it sounds like me on the slopes.

No, you were good on the slopes.

I know how to carve.

Yeah, man.

But I was hopeless.

And so I collected all their cast-offs and glued them together to make a guy's head.

You Frankenstein?

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

Have you done any of the puppet making

at home now?

Not at home yet, but I'm gearing up.

Okay.

Like, would you

need to get a sewing machine?

I have a

snowing machine.

Sounds like me me on the slopes.

The smashing snowing machine.

Yeah.

Perfect.

You should call that movie the sewing machine.

Then people watching it, what the fuck?

It's me, the sewing machine.

Is that your rock?

Yeah.

No, the rock is cooking.

People were talking about how he got so skinny.

Yeah.

Well, comparatively to his giant.

Yeah.

Did you see?

Is him skinny?

No, because in the movie he's big right i know but then he's not the rock baby oh no i don't pay attention to men's bodies uh yeah good policy skinny dwarven johnson out of respect this is uh yeah he looked um

let me move it over to your screen there

oh yeah he yeah he looks but also he's what age is he now he looks fit 50 something probably he looks 81 fit and fine and fine

and i'm just a baby the uh but people i've heard someone saying like oh he must have done it with mpic No, he just didn't lift weights for a month.

Also, it's funny that the comparative shots is one, he's wearing shorts and a tight t-shirt, and the other ones he's wearing kind of a golf shirt and slacks.

Yeah.

Those thighs are insane.

Yeah.

Good God.

And I know it's been said on the podcast many times, but his diet mostly consisted of cod.

Yeah.

Then it says then, and then new.

This is now.

That was then.

This is new.

Yes.

Well,

so you saw this thing i saw this thing i enjoyed myself immensely and uh the thing is like the the theater world is so different than the stand-up comedy world it's jarring yeah it really is because i did fringe the other year i was like oh yeah i forgot yeah people want to like take you seriously and feel things and they also yeah they want to respect you sincere and yeah yeah and then you go do stand-up and you're just like wow everybody's just talking over each other yeah cool i mean so this and they're really big into clowns like i didn't know clowning was so important and big right now.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Apparently, Toronto's got to happen in clowns.

Yeah.

Same with LA.

Yeah.

Oh, LA's got the happiness.

They have the show called Stamp Town.

Have you heard of it?

I've heard of it.

Stamptown Races sing the song.

Dude.

Duda.

That's basically it in a nutshell.

It's just chaos.

It's organized chaos.

Is there no clown scene in New York?

There probably is.

I'm just, I haven't.

I don't know where to go yet.

You'll find it.

They're all smoking cigars, and I'm like, I can't find you.

Yeah, just follow the scars now.

Yeah.

If you hear any,

just follow that, and eventually you'll find your tribe.

Yeah.

Do you want to be a clown?

No, no.

No, but you're not saying

that.

I did take clowning.

Like, I did technically take a clowning class.

So I kind of like.

What's that like?

Yeah, not my scene.

We did really wear red noses.

That was part of it.

Why is that part of it?

It's to raise money, I think.

For English people.

What is it called?

Funny

red nose days.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Something about breaking the social contract.

I don't know.

I don't know, man.

Yeah.

I don't want to get that.

They're going to feed you a lot of bullshit at the cloud classes.

You either have it or you don't.

The rest is a con.

We had a warm-up where we were like in a circle warming each other up.

And we had to announce, like, we said heart chakra open for business.

And then we had to go around and saying, I don't know anything and keep doing that.

I'm like, bitch, I know things.

Yeah.

I know a lot of things.

I'm out of here.

I mean, and then I remember my clowning teacher came over to me and I was sitting because we're doing a group activity.

I was sitting in the corner And he knelt down and he went, you have a hard time playing, don't you?

I was like, yeah, but I'm not working that out here.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's what my job at the patisserie is for.

That's right.

That's why I was fired.

I don't know anything.

I think when you realize you don't know anything, that's when you truly

start learning.

Okay, well, I really like that.

It's not for you to sit back and listen.

Let me reject my clowning, okay?

I want to move away from this part of my history.

I I respect people who can do it.

No, I respect people who can do it, but they can commit to something.

I don't like committing to something.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's the worst.

It's the worst.

Yeah.

Because then you're locked in.

Then you're locked in,

and there's a risk in that.

Give me a funny example of how you are afraid of commitment.

Oh, well, unemployed.

Yeah, unemployed.

Tap into that clown.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I signed a one-day phone plan, that kind of thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good.

Oh, yeah.

Shoot.

On the spot again.

i still need to think of my wtf episode

yeah you said that assignment would be done by now yeah that was i'm a dual citizen is that sure okay all right um

i never book a flight until the week before yeah that's good okay that's great yeah yeah yeah yeah um i over thank you for sharing thank you i i packed a pair of jeans i haven't worn once since i left like put them on today No, I can't.

Why?

I think I outgrew them already.

I was in Montana.

I was eating a lot of cheese.

We just had meat.

Okay.

That's all that happened.

I think

Alexander Hamilton, he was a dual citizen, am I right?

I get it.

One thing I learned from Broadway.

That's a Renfair joke, too.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, they do duels.

Jousting.

Sorry, that would be jousting.

I'm a joust citizen.

A dual?

Joust citizen citizen.

Should we move on to some overheards?

Yeah.

Moving is the worst.

Yeah, but it's exciting, too.

Our new Max Fun HQ office in downtown LA is actually going to fit all of us in it.

And the new studio is going to be so nice.

Plus, we'll have space for hangouts and events.

Yeah, you're right.

It's going to be worth it, but boy, is it expensive.

Maybe we could get some help?

Hmm.

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Overheard.

Overheards.

The segment of the show where if you overhear things, we want to overhear you say them.

And we always like to start with the guest.

Casey, do you have an overheard?

Yeah, this one is actually something I said, but then my friend, I saw her overhear me and I saw her reaction to me.

Okay.

So that was a new experience.

But I was, like I said, Montana, this comedy festival.

And there was this great First Nations comedian who also did a presentation for us.

And his name's Casey Nicholson.

Okay.

Same spelling as you?

No, with K-A-S-E.

Yes.

Yeah.

So this was Friday.

Very tired.

Like I'm getting like average three hours of sleep a night.

Okay.

So anyway.

So the altitude?

The altitude, yeah.

Hell yeah.

And then I'm at the casino all night.

There's no clocks there.

There's no clocks.

So

anyway, it's before our competition competition show and everyone's nervous.

And I step up to the group and I'm just going to remind everyone something that Casey said.

So I said, as Casey Anthony said,

choose happiness.

And then my buddy Diana stepped in and she's like, what did you just say?

I was like, Casey Anthony from today.

I just completely blanked on his last name.

But that was horrifying.

You should have like total Casey

command.

You should know all the Casey's.

I know.

I think I do the opposite.

I try to avoid acknowledging there are other ones.

Casey and the Sunshine Pen.

Casey with the bad.

Masterpiece.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

All of it.

Casey TS9, the Seattle PBS station.

Yeah, do you get that?

All of it.

Isn't there a chop or two?

Anyway, yeah.

Probably, yeah, probably.

So that was a horrifying slip on my part, but I got to see someone experience an overheard.

How is Casey Anthony these days?

She's a stand-up.

She's doing stand-up anthem.

Oh, really?

Yeah, yeah.

So it's full circle.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

I don't know if you're joking.

No, I'm not joking.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think someone there had seen her.

There's a very low-barred entry, you know?

Yeah.

There really is.

And actually, the Casey Novak of Law and Order fame, there's a character on Law and Order named Casey Novak.

Oh, wow.

And the actress is doing it.

I don't watch it.

But she does stand-up comedy now.

Really?

Her too?

All Caseys have to.

So the actress does it.

Yes.

But she doesn't do it in character.

No, she does not.

What was the character, a cop or a

special district attorney?

Okay, sure, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I think we knew this at one point.

We probably looked it up on the show.

There are only like five facts about me, so that's

gone through them all.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Dave, do you have one overheard?

Yeah, sure.

This is a, I was walking in the neighborhood and I saw a van that was for an axe throwing company.

And it just said the two things that they,

well, the lettering was coming off the van, but I'm pretty sure I figured it out.

But it just says learn hand-eye coordination and anger management.

Oh, you both.

Oh, wow.

Very important.

I'd go to the first one first would be anger management.

Then

I just think it's funny that there would be people doing like alongside, like, oh, I'm here to get out my rage.

Oh, I'm just here because I,

you know, I'm not very good at like threading a needle.

That's a big promise.

It's a huge promise.

Yeah.

Although a lot of the letters had come off, and it really just said learned hand, coordinatio, anger.

That's also the tagline for puppetry, right?

Yeah.

Yes.

Yes, yes, yeah.

My overheard is courtesy of, I went to a wedding two weekends ago,

and I was the MC for said wedding.

It was past guest Yumi Nagashima's wedding.

Happy wedding.

Yeah.

Congrats.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'll take them on her behalf.

Thank you.

But they had speeches for quite a few people, but they were all really short and nice.

But every single person went up there and said, oh, I'm very bad at speeches.

And then knocked it out of the park.

And then at one point, the guy that I put on as the headliner, Charlie DeMares, he went up to Mike and said, actually, you guys, I'm really good at this.

Oh, the laugh it got.

My God, it was fantastic.

But yeah, it was just such a

right on, exact right thing to say.

And he is very good at it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But all these people, they were all sweet, short, sometimes have a little funny twist, you know.

And everybody that I brought up looked like they were going to go to a firing squad.

Like, they all looked terrified when I called their name.

But then when they got up there, no stumbles, no nothing.

Amazing.

No stumbles, no mumbles.

No stumbles, no mumbles.

And now they have a credit.

Wow.

I got to say, you and I were really low on overhertz.

Yeah.

Dave, uh-huh.

And we're recording another one last week.

So,

sure, our overhers are limited.

Yeah, our cup runneth under.

Yeah.

Yeah, corn of empty.

As in cornucopia.

Yeah, cornucopia.

Corn of corn of plenty.

Now we also have overheard sent into us by you, the listeners.

If you want to send one in, send it into SBY at maximumfund.org.

And this first one comes from Melissa in Bardstown, Kentucky.

You ever heard of Bardstown, Casey?

No, but Kentucky, yes.

Yes,

it's one of the big 50, one of the top 50 states.

Yeah, it's up to you.

While camping at a Hobbit-themed festival, you got me.

And no further questions.

I overheard two people in the next tent having a conversation.

A male voice said, my first roommate wasn't a nerd.

He was a juggalo.

Yeah.

And you confuse the two.

Oh, yeah.

Different circles in the Venn diagram.

I don't know what the overlap is, though.

Nerd.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like.

But like nerd versus juggalo.

They're both nerds?

They're both nerds.

Really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, okay.

All that kind of stuff populated by there would be Ranfair and Beasts.

Yeah.

I don't know.

No, yeah, maybe the nerd.

I don't know if it's the overlap.

The overlap is community.

Yeah, that's right.

Correct, though.

Facebook.

Because this guy was at a

Hobbit-themed, he was camping at a Hobbit-themed festival.

Festival.

Nerd, nerd, nerd.

And the gathering of the juggalos is a juggalo-themed festival.

Right.

Is there a name for it?

Like a flock of seagulls?

It's the

gathering is the juggalo.

Oh, but is there like a collective?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

an assault of

a fago of yeah

um there was i remember when they were playing a show or maybe one person was djing or something, but the lineup on Gramble Street, fantastic.

Every other person just done up to the tens and 11s and just being very quiet.

Nobody was going nuts or anything.

It was just wanting to get in there and see their juggalo friends.

This is the insane clown posse.

Yeah.

Maybe just violent Jay.

I feel like there might have been not the full concert, but then again, how many fans do they have in each town, I wonder?

Enough.

Yeah.

Hey, you know what?

If you're any juggalo out there listening, keep doing what you're doing.

Unless what you're doing is horrible.

Right.

Keep rocking in the free world.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

If you're a nice juggalo, we want to hear from you.

Yeah.

If you're Santa, I've been a nice juggalo all year.

I'm in a juggalo-themed version of Santa, baby.

I was about to say, back to the Christmas parody album on the ICP.

Yeah.

What would they want?

Is that Faygo?

They would want

meth.

Yeah, they would want, oh, geez, I'm trying to get more face paint, I guess.

What the food would be.

Santa Juggy.

Respect.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Build my Jinkos with

Vago.

All right.

Oh,

this one comes from Brittany from Downing Down.

Put that in your pack, one of your fancy packs.

I already did.

Thank you.

Oh, yeah.

How many song parities did you have to send?

ICP and mango bits.

Yeah.

New mango.

Yeah, this

writing pack we got is insane.

Everybody gather around.

A while ago, I was behind a car in traffic that had a bumper sticker with a cute frog on it that said, ho, is you going to let me merge?

Yeah.

Did you guys know those bumper stickers that say like honk if you like pizza?

It's about like excusing the fact if anyone's honking at you.

Yeah.

Oh, I thought it was like if you like pizza, I'll honk.

That's what I thought.

I mean, but it's also like if someone's honking at you, you can just tell yourself, oh, they probably just like

pizza.

I didn't know it was like a defense move.

Oh, see, I've always thought about it.

I thought it was a fur, like, hey, let's vote with our bonks.

Yeah, yeah.

Someone had one on the,

what do we call it?

The Discord?

Discord, yeah.

The stop podcasting yourself Discord.

Oh, you go there frequently.

Yeah.

It's brand new.

It is brand new.

And they, they posted a bumper sticker that was for a very cheap car, and it said, this was $700.

I'll be merging now.

Okay,

nice.

Like it.

This last one comes from Charlie in Cincinnati.

Hey!

Cincinnati.

What's up?

Was that Cincinnati?

Is that what?

Yeah.

Is there anything else?

Cincinnati?

Cince Juggalo?

I don't know.

I don't have anything else because we do.

Cincinnati.

Cincinnati.

That's a good one.

I haven't heard that yet.

Yeah, that's a good one.

I mean, it's just a nicer nasty.

Not nice.

Yeah, it's just naughty.

It's more nicy.

It's a nice time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But like

Vancouver is what?

Vancouver is what I call it.

Yeah, Vancouver for a while when that was

Raincouver.

The 604.

604.

Terminal City, some people call it.

Toronto.

Yeah.

Not Toronto.

Yeah.

Hollywood North, they would call themselves.

Yes.

This last one comes from a feature on a local Facebook Messenger or Marketplace app.

Sorry.

This breast pump, and the title of it was $100 breast pump, called it a boob juicer.

Well, $100 for a boob juicer?

Not wrong.

That's not bad.

Not wrong.

Yeah.

I feel like, is that something that you'd buy secondhand?

Were you in the marketplace?

Yeah.

Well,

I am friends with people who have babies and yeah.

And titties.

Yeah, and titties.

Dave.

Sorry, boob juicies.

You can sanitize things.

That is possible.

I do think that is something that we saw.

Yeah.

Did you get a new one?

I think we

got a new one.

Okay.

Yeah.

Do you still have it?

You can sell it on Marketplace for $100.

Yeah.

I don't know.

There were some things that were like, oh, you definitely need that new.

And other people were like, no, you can just get it used.

Yeah.

The only thing I think of is car seats definitely have to be new.

Do they?

Yeah.

Oh, why?

Because they change, right?

They change the specifics.

Well, no, we got some secondhand.

We didn't buy them, but like we had a hand-me-down card scenes.

But they do expire.

Yeah.

Okay.

Like the Rox Muscles.

Those are not expiring.

He's just on hiatus.

He'll get huge again.

You'll see.

Yeah.

You'll all see.

Now, if he, if he was that giant and he's

like, are we ever going to see him with his shirt off again?

You know what I mean?

I guess he did for the Smashing Machine, but...

What do you mean?

We just always saw him topless forever.

It's true and oily.

Now that he's seems thinner in that photo than he would have been in the smashing machine.

I feel like in the

even in the

then?

Yeah, well, I don't know about the then.

Well, in the new one, yeah, he's definitely thinner.

Yeah.

But why would he not take his shirt off?

That's what I mean.

I want to see.

We don't know yet.

Yeah.

We can't know.

Too soon to tell.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What if he's doing like a maybe in the spring when the ground dog comes out and the rock will see?

What if he's for a role and he's playing some pip squeak?

Oh, sure, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

In the Bill Nye biopic.

Oh, man.

You look kind of like Al Roker this far away.

What a good time.

The Rock, if you're out there.

We love you no matter what size you are.

Bill Nye, if you're out there.

Science rules.

I love Bill Nye.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I

constantly say I'm just concerned if he's happy or not in life.

I just want him to be happy.

He's pretty happy.

The Mariners are doing really well.

So he's lit.

Excited.

Yeah.

Very good.

I know for a fact he's a big Mariners fan.

Well, what do you If you're in Seattle, you know?

Well, in addition to overs that are written in, we also accept your phone calls.

If you want to call us, our phone number is 1-844-77-97631.

That's 1-Uch-SpyPod 1, like these people have.

Or send us a voice memo, spy at maximumfun.org, like these people have.

Hi, this is Nick Cornyn from Missoula, Montana.

Hey!

Just in a coffee shop over here.

Coffee.

They're this conversation, which had something to do with how annoying drones are, how they're not any fun to record with.

But the only real part I was able to clearly catch was the end of the conversation where a woman said, Yeah, no mirror over the bed, drones instead.

No freaking way.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

So our voicemail quality is going way down.

But I made out what he said, but it was a struggle.

Yeah.

It's funny that we're at the point that things that I thought would be in the future exist and people are already tired of them.

Yeah.

They exist and suck.

You're so right.

And it rhymed, though, the advice, right?

Yeah.

That was first lamb poetry.

But I saw a police drone in New York.

That was pretty cool and eerie.

How did you know that it had a gun shooting?

Almost.

It was going in a perfectly straight line horizontally, and then it went at a ninety degree angle down and then landed right by a cop car with the lights going and it was at night.

Yeah, so I think they're surveilling.

So like I'm not over it.

I'm a little scared of them.

Yeah.

I'll say that.

I don't

like them because every single movie I've seen since they've become available has an overhead shot.

Yeah.

And weddings too now, like that's a big thing.

You can like up the automatic value of your wedding production.

And like like real estate videos.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

Those things I'm less familiar with.

But they have like

I'm not, that part of it I still think is cool.

The real estate thing?

No, no,

a drone camera in like

your home movies or something.

Well, no, just even then, like, oh, this, what used to be like a, you know, a 48 hours style, like, crappy

true crime thing, now it's like a prestige thing because they got the drone over the river where the body was seen.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm pro-drones.

You're pro-drones?

I'm pro-drones.

Okay.

All right.

right.

Next phone call.

This one's a voice of my mom.

Hi, Dave Graham and possible guest.

This is Mark from Louisiana calling in with an overheard.

I was at my synagogue with my kid for Hebrew lessons, and the rabbi was teaching the kids

how to sing different blessings in Hebrew, and there was a lot of

type of singing.

And then as we were leaving later on, I just hear the rabbi kind of singing to himself.

And I hear, oh, oh, oh,

O'Reilly.

So, yeah, rabbi had the O'Reilly Auto Parts jingle in his head.

Nice.

I didn't know O'Reilly's was national.

It's not international.

We don't have it here, but we don't know.

But we've heard it in our

jingle episodes.

We've heard plenty of

Riley's is auto parts.

Auto parts, yeah like but it's across the country I don't know in Ohio we get it but it's a fair it's a famous jingle okay okay

what's the

what's the big grocery store in Cincinnati

do they have a jingle no

no they don't they have a wellness fair every year what is the big deal what's the big um water park near Cincinnati well there was the beach but it died because uh Kings Island an amusement park they built their own water park do they uh have a jingle yeah

I can't do it.

It's a, let's say, a Diet Jamaican kind of song.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it's come to the beach.

Come to the beach.

But you can put yourself.

Yeah, Ma.

Yeah.

Because we do these episodes, bonus episodes, where we get people to call in with their regional jingles.

Oh, it's so fun.

I love that.

And we've discovered that everywhere has a water park.

Water gig.

Are they all that flavor?

No, no.

No, they vary.

But

there's other jingles that also have that Jamaican flavor.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Classic.

One when I was growing up that was really racist to Japanese people.

We're not trying to be mean to

a restaurant called Japanese Village.

Look it up.

Look it up if you want to hear it.

Yeah, I forget.

There was one.

Never mind.

What's the best case scenario?

Anyway,

here's your final phone call.

Hey, Dave.

Hey, Graham.

And likely guest, this is David in Chicago.

I was sitting at a bar having dinner tonight, and two women sat down next to me and were having a conversation.

somewhat drunken conversation about something that had apparently happened, you know, seemingly within the last hour.

I guess they'd been there for a while.

Where

one of the two women went out for a smoke break, and in that time,

the guy she was talking to that she thought she was going to go home with

left.

And so she was talking about this at great length.

And she kept on referring to

what she was after

from this gentleman as Schneckums.

So

talking about how she missed that on the Schneckums.

And

she was talking to her friend about it and saying,

it's like, oh,

just trying to remember this guy's name.

And her friend was saying,

if you don't know the name of the Schneckums, you don't get the Schneckums.

That old song.

Wow.

Mary Schneckams to all.

Oh.

Wish you all a good night.

What a.

I love it.

What a moment.

That's a nice family way of, you know, talking about having casual sex.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just a little bit of schneckums.

Like, it doesn't have to be casual.

You can have

sex.

With a schneckums?

I don't think so.

I think that's a one-night stand.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like a Schnecker.

Mary Schneck kill.

Yeah.

Nights.

Well, that brings us to the end of the podcast.

Casey, where can people find you?

Where can they see your hilarious stand-up comedy and writing, et cetera?

Thank you so much for asking.

I am on Instagram.

Please follow me.

I need numbers at k.c.novak.

You can check me out on CBC Gem, New Wave of Comedy.

And then also, I just want to shout out my good buddy, Blake Hammond, in Cincinnati.

He's a great comic.

And check him out as well.

He's at Blake Hammond Comedy on Instagram.

Wow.

Oh, look at you.

Yeah.

He was also at the festival I just did, and he's such a crusher.

And I just want to share the love.

Yeah, he really needs help these days.

We're really worried about Blake.

Yeah.

You're going to pull through, man.

Yeah, you got this.

That's nice.

I don't think anybody's ever done that before.

Oh, really?

Shout out to the second person.

No.

I would rather be his manager than a comedian at this point.

Now, before the show, you asked if I had any tums.

I brought a thing of tums.

Yeah.

Did you tum?

No, I'm so proud of myself.

Congratulations.

He's doing great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Your gastro testinal

situation.

Gastro.

Gystrotrotissery.

Judicial system.

That's what I'm going to brag tomorrow with at the doctor.

Podcast didn't need a single tum.

Well, thank you for being our guest.

Thank you so much.

And thank you, everybody out there for listening.

If you think to ask your proctologist, see if it's one of the 1930s or 40s situation or see if you've got a better table before you pick the proctologist for you.

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